Vijay, film actor

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A brief biography

2009-18

D Govardan, Actor Vijay is no stranger to run-ins with politicians, November 9, 2018: The Times of India

Actor Vijay and controversies go hand in hand. This has been the case for the past few years. More so after the actor started a welfare association of his fans, Vijay Makkal Iyakkam, through which he started distributing aid to the underprivileged. Even as they sensed his political ambitions, discomfited politicians took potshots at the actor.

While Vijay himself has hinted at a political entry from time to time, or more directly in the audio launch of his latest film ‘Sarkar’, his actions have been more of the ‘hit and run’ variety. They lacked consistency.

For instance, in 2009, he rushed all the way to New Delhi to meet Rahul Gandhi. The buzz then was Vijay wanted to become a leader of the Youth Congress, but he was found to be overage.

While this reportedly irked DMK, then ruling the state, he extended the support of his fans to the AIADMK in the 2011 assembly elections, after his film ‘Kaavalan’ faced trouble in getting enough theatres under the DMK regime.

However, his bonhomie did not last long with the AIADMK and its chief J Jayalalithaa, as the star’s ‘Thalaivaa’ ran into trouble due to its tagline – ‘Time to Lead’ — in 2013. Despite Vijay and his film maker father S A Chandrasekharan rushing to Kodanad, they could not meet her. Eventually that film was promoted without the tagline.

Earlier, his ‘Thuppakki’ (2012) too courted trouble for fears over showing a minority community in bad light and later ‘Katthi’ also faced trouble from Tamil outfits, as the producer of the movie was alleged to be a close associate of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse.

In most of the cases, Vijay maintained silence, not the hallmark of an aspiring politician. This remains the case with last year’s issue over ‘Mersal’ and the latest ‘Sarkar’ row.

“Vijay has political ambitions and is using films as a powerful medium. As it happened with Rajinikanth and ‘Baasha’, it has become a pattern for actors including Vijay and Kamal Haasan to play around with politics in their films. While Vijay would be happy with the free publicity and hence remains silent, the fact that ‘Sarkar’ is produced by Sun Pictures has made it more controversial,” says political analyst M Kasinathan. “As for the ruling AIADMK, they utilized the opportunity to show that their cadres are still vibrant,” he added. Download The Times of India News App for Latest City News.